Occam's Organization about Simple Trading Secrets

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Occam's (or Ockham's - pronounced Okhams) Razor is a principle attributed to
the Logician and Franciscan Friar "William of Occam," who's
picture is to the upper-left. Ockham was a village in the English county
of Surrey where he was born in about the year 1285.

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Occam was the most influential philosopher
of the 14th century and was controversial theologian.

The principal of Parsimony is involved.
A well-established test for reaching a conclusion based on limited information,
such as commodities, stocks & options trading success, where there always
seems to be limited trading information available to the trading public
and off-floor traders!

The medieval rule of parsimony, frequently
used by Ockham came to be known as Ockham's Razor, or more popularly
as "Occam's Razor" also known in trader terminology as K.I.S.S.

The rule, which said plurality should
not be assumed without necessity was used to eliminate many possible
explanations. In modern English, Keep It Simple Stupid - aka KISS.

A quote by William of Occam (circa 1325) is
"complex explanations are pointless when simple ones will do."
A most useful statement regarding Occam's principle for traders and investors is:
"when you have two competing trading theories which make exactly the same predictions,
the one that is simpler is the better & more profitable one."

It is our position traders must use the
simplest means of arriving at their trade selection and buy/sell signals.
Occam's Razor theory and simplicity trading methods are both overnight position trading
and day trading secrets
to financial markets trade success.

Occam's razor, also known as 'the law
of simplicity' is often quoted in strong forms as in the following statements:

"If you have two trading/investing
theories which both explain the observed facts then you should use the
most simple and simplest one until more evidence comes along"

"The simplest explanation for
a commodity or stock price movement phenomenon is more likely to be
accurate than more complicated explanations."

"If you have two equally likely
solutions to a trading or day trading problem, pick the simplest."

"The price movement explanation
requiring the fewest assumptions is most likely to be correct."

... or in the only form which takes
its own advice... "Keep things simple!"

These principles go back at least as
far as Aristotle who wrote "Nature operates in the shortest
way possible." Aristotle went too far in believing that experiment
and observation were unnecessary.

The
principle of simplicity as it related to the financial markets and trading,
works as a heuristic rule-of-thumb but some people quote it as if it
is an axiom of physics. It is not. It can work well in philosophy or
particle physics, but less often in areas like cosmology or psychology,
where things usually turn out to be more complicated than you ever expected.

Simplicity is subjective and the universe
does not always have the same ideas about simplicity as we do. Successful
theorists and profitable stock & commodity traders often speak of
symmetry and beauty as well as simplicity.

The Research Worker, in his effort to
express the fundamental laws of Nature in mathematical form should strive
mainly for mathematical beauty.

It often happens that the requirements
of simplicity and beauty are the same, but where they clash the latter
must take precedence.

Perhaps you heard the term Occam's Razor
used several times in the popular movie 'Contact,' based on the book
by Carl Sagan. It was used in an attempt to explain Jodie Foster's trip
via Worm Holes in Space to a distant planet, zillions of light years from Earth.

When 'Ellie' was asked if she knew what
Occam's Razor meant, she explained it like this "All things being
equal, the simpler explanation tends to be the right one."

The final word falls to Albert Einstein,
himself a master of the quotable one liner. He warned:

Everything should be made as simple
as possible, but not simpler!

That is so true in successful trading and investing, more true than you would imagine!

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